Kyle Sandilands claims it would be ‘racist’ to sack Whoopi Goldberg

Kyle Sandilands is sure he knows why Whoopi Goldberg narrowly survived the axe, after she made controversial holocaust comments on a US talk show.

Kyle Sandilands has claimed it would be “racist” to sack Whoopi Goldberg after her controversial comments about the holocaust on her US talk show.

The 50-year-old shock jock has waded into the saga, which saw Goldberg, 66, narrowly avoid the axe from ABC’s The View, which instead suspended her for two weeks despite calls for her to be fired.

“Cancel culture is now over. It’s finished. Now no one’s going to get cancelled. If Whoopi Goldberg didn’t get cancelled, then that’s the end of cancel culture,” Sandilands said. “And they can’t cancel her, because she’s a black woman. And that is racist in itself.

“Why didn’t Whoopi Goldberg get cancelled for saying that s**t about the Holocaust? Because she’s a black woman.

‘That’s the only reason she’s not fired. Because they were like, ‘Oh, she’s not a fat, rich white person! What are we going to do with an actual black woman? Nothing!’”

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Kyle Sandilands waded in on the Whoopi Goldberg saga.

Sandilands added he doesn’t believe anyone should get fired for “having an opinion”, but that it was happening across the board in many instances, the most obvious being Roseanne Barr who was sacked from her ABC show in 2018 after posting a racist tweet.

“If everyone gets fired for even thinking something nowadays, then why didn’t she (Goldberg) get fired? She only got suspended for two weeks.”

Goldberg was forced to apologise last week after declaring on-air, “The Holocaust isn’t about race. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man.”

Goldberg attracted criticism for her comments about the Holocaust.

She apologised a few days later via Twitter, “On today’s show, I said the Holocaust ‘is not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man.’

“I should have said it is about both. As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, ‘The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people – who they deemed to be an inferior race.’ I stand corrected,” Goldberg said.

“The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver. I’m sorry for the hurt I have caused. Written with my sincerest apologies, Whoopi Goldberg.”